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Not really hurt, but temporarily useless in a military operation. the government says the courts injunction would improperly limit their discretion by spellsifying how the army there provide medical care. the army insists the veterans must prove their disability is related to their time at edgewood and can only be treated at va facilities. >> we dont have time for that 6 or 7 years down the road. reporter: former justice department lawyer says the government wants to maintain control over how me...

Not really hurt, but temporarily useless in a military operation. the government says the courts injunction would improperly limit their discretion by spellsifying how the army there provide medical care. the army insists the veterans must prove their disability is related to their time at edgewood and can only be treated at va facilities. >> we dont have time for that 6 or 7 years down the road. reporter: former justice department lawyer says the government wants to maintain control over how me...

Scandal over excessive wait times for veterans at va facilities. tragic news tonight from here in washington. a federal worker was killed this morning when a large tree fell on him near the u.s. capitol. the architect of the capitols offices matthew mcclanahan was working on irrigation pipe at the time of the accident. house speaker paul ryan asked for prayers for his wife and young children. right now, the state of arkansas plans to execute to death row inmates thursday. it is the next schedule...

Scandal over excessive wait times for veterans at va facilities. tragic news tonight from here in washington. a federal worker was killed this morning when a large tree fell on him near the u.s. capitol. the architect of the capitols offices matthew mcclanahan was working on irrigation pipe at the time of the accident. house speaker paul ryan asked for prayers for his wife and young children. right now, the state of arkansas plans to execute to death row inmates thursday. it is the next schedule...

>> bret: john, there is a controversy over the lack of presidential portraits at va facilities across the country. >> the other day it was brought to the attention of florida congressman brian mast, who himself is a disabled veteran. that there werent any portraits of the president. west palm beach and other facilities. mast, with a group of veterans, went to the va with their own portraits of president trump and hung them up on the wall. after they left, va staff took them down which prompted t...

Just this last year, secretary mcdonald compared wait times at va to those at disneyland. as recently as december your station reported va facilities had one to five star rating system. va jointed countless facilities at bottom of the list with one star ratings. sloan gibson, were supposed to believe him in "stars and stripes" article that eliminating bonuses reduces hiring. how about eliminating constant scandals involving administrators. pete: if the current system continues through 2019, up t...

Military, and we will, we will. youre going to see it. im so looking forward, probably next week, youre going to see what were going to do to take care of our vets. it is going to be announced. a lot of things are going to be announced. stay tuned, folks. here are the priorities that will guide our military and veterans policy. all men and women in uniform will have the supplies, support, equipment, training, services, medical care and resources they need to get the job done incredibly well and ...

Outstanding folks here at this va and all the vas across the country who are deserving. >> that sounds great. theres the president insisting that the veterans affairs administration deserves our trust. but a brand-new report from the associated press suggests otherwise. the bombshell study shows that nearly one year after the va scandal first broke the number of patients facing long waits at va facilities has not dropped! at all! and that is not the worst of it. fox news legal analyst peter john...

Women come back and theyre not mentally ready to reinvigorate their life -- >> the evidence shows when there isnt pain. lets look at the map with the va facilities with the most pain killers dispensed in 2012. oregon, west virginia, north carolina. the list goes on and on. weve seen it an ecdotely to what viewers saw yesterday. we saw in the hearing with regard to wisconsin. people wrote in yesterday. saw this for myself. hundreds of oxies given to a man with no documentable illness. he sold the...

2009 about dangerous delays in treatment and even falsified waiting lists at the phoenix va hospital. doug mckelway live in washington with new information. what it means, doug. >> leland, what makes it so significant, it contradicts the narrative that people at highest levels of the va were unaware of the waiting list problems before they surfaced in the press. also suggests that the problems at troubled phoenix va hospital predated the tenure of director sharon hellman. she was dismissed from ...